Penny-cross, co. Argyle). _b._ 1791; cornet 13 hussars 23 Aug.
1810, lieut.-col. 11 July 1834 to 1 Aug. 1840 when placed on
h.p.; col. 13 hussars 12 Nov. 1860 to death; L.G. 20 Dec. 1861;
served in Peninsular war from Dec. 1810 until wounded and taken
prisoner at Conches, March 1814; received silver war medal with
6 clasps. _d._ Oxford sq. London 9 Dec. 1868. _Reg. and mag. of
biog. i_ 113, 358, 525 (1869).
MC LEAN, ARCHIBALD (son of Neil Mc Lean of Mull, Scotland, a
member of legislative council of Canada). _b._ St. Andrew’s,
April 1791; in Canadian army 1812; A.Q.M.G., and on the staff;
a prisoner at Lundy’s Lane till end of the war; barrister at
York, Canada; a representative for Stormont and Cornwall in
legislative assembly of Upper Canada, and twice elected speaker;
judge of court of King’s bench 1837–56; chief justice of Upper
Canada 1856, president of the court of error and appeal to
death. _d._ Toronto 1865. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iv_
142–3 (1888).
MACLEAN, ARCHIBALD. Rear admiral in German navy. _d._ Berlin 7
Nov. 1884.
MC LEAN, CHARLES. Carver and gilder at 181 Fleet st. London
1838, afterwards at 78 and 79 Fleet st. to 1869; manager of
Commercial plate glass co. at 78 and 79 Fleet st.; started Fun
in 1861 and Banter at 183 Fleet st. 2 Sep. 1867, ran to 4 Nov.
1867; Charles Mc Lean junior published Fun at 80 Fleet st. _d._
1869.
MACLEAN, SIR CHARLES FITZROY, 9 Baronet (son of sir Fitzroy
Jeffries Grafton Maclean, 8 baronet _d._ 5 July 1847). _b._ 14
Oct. 1798; ed. at Eton; ensign Scots fusilier guards 10 Oct.
1816; captain 81 foot 7 Aug. 1823, lieut.-col. 16 March 1832,
placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1839; military secretary at Gibraltar;
colonel 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ West Cliff house, Sandgate road,
Folkestone 27 Dec. 1883.
MACLEAN, DONALD (brother of sir C. F. Maclean 1798–1883). _b._
1800; ed. at Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A.
1827, D.C.L. 1844; took a leading part in formation of the
Union society; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1827; M.P. city of Oxford
1835–47. _d._ Rome 21 March 1874.
MC LEAN, SIR DONALD (4 son of John Mc Lean). _b._ Kilmonaig near
Tiree, Argyllshire 27 Oct. 1820; employed in a merchant’s office
at Sydney 1837–9; learnt the Maori language; clerk in office of
protector of the aborigines, New Zealand 1840; local protector
for the Taranaki district 1844, inspector of police for Taranaki
1845; comr. for negotiating purchases of lands from the natives
5 March 1847 to 1863; resident magistrate Taranaki 1850–63; the
first native secretary 1856–63; member of provincial council
and superintendent of Hawke’s Bay province 4 March 1863; member
of legislative assembly 1866; native minister and minister for
colonial defence June 1869 to Dec. 1876; C.M.G. 28 July 1870,
K.C.M.G. 23 July 1874. _d._ New Zealand 5 Jany. 1877. _W.
Gisborne’s New Zealand rulers_ (1886) 163, 248, 289, _portrait_.
MACLEAN, SIR GEORGE (eld. son of Wm. Maclean of Dysart,
Fifeshire). _b._ Dysart 1795; ed. at Edinburgh; entered
commissariat service 1812; commissary general 29 Dec. 1849,
placed on h.p. 20 Oct. 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 9
June 1854; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856 _d._ Southampton 29 May 1861.
MC LEAN, HECTOR (3 son of John Donald Mc Lean of Sydney, New
South Wales). Matric. from New coll. Oxf. 26 Jany. 1885 aged 20;
rowed in the University boat against Cambridge 1886 and 1887;
captain of the Oxford university boat club 1887. _d._ of typhoid
fever at Oxford 20 Jany. 1888.
NOTE.--The Clinker Fours, a race between the colleges of the second
division which takes place annually in the month of March were
instituted in his memory.
MACLEAN, HENRY DUNDAS (5 son of Alexander Maclean of Ardgour,
Argyleshire 1764–1855). _b._ 1800; ed. at Harrow; lieut. 90 foot
27 Jany. 1820; captain 95 foot 6 Nov. 1824, major 20 April 1832,
placed on h.p. 17 Nov. 1840, brevet lieut.-col. 9 Nov. 1846;
sheriff of Cumberland 1848. _d._ Lazonby hall, Cumberland 8 Dec.
1863.
MACLEAN, JOHN (son of Charles Maclean of Portsoy, Banffshire).
_b._ 1828; bursar at King’s coll. Aberdeen 1847, M.A. 1851; in
a counting-house in London; ordained by bishop of Ripon 1858;
assistant to bishop of Huron in St. Paul’s cathedral, London,
Toronto 1858–66; warden and divinity professor of St. John’s
college, R. of St. John’s cathedral, Winnipeg and archdeacon of
Assiniboia or Manitoba 1866–74; bishop of Saskatchewan, Rupert’s
Land 1874 to death; consecrated at Lambeth 3 May 1874; secured
a permanent endowment for his see and for Emanuel college at
Alberta which became an university; D.C.L. Trinity college,
Toronto 1871. _d._ Alberta, Rupert’s Land 13 Nov. 1886. _The
Guardian 17 Nov. 1886 p._ 1720.
MACLEAN, JOHN. _b._ 1810; chief comr. for British Kaffraria,
Sep. 1852, lieut. governor Dec. 1860 to 27 March 1865 when
British Kaffraria was reunited to Cape Colony by 28 and 29 Vict.
cap. 5; lieut. governor of Natal 6 Oct. 1864 to Nov. 1866; C.B.
25 Aug. 1857. _d._ East London, British Kaffraria 2 Dec. 1874;
his widow Katharine Louisa Georgina was granted civil list
pension of £100, 19 June 1875 and _d._ 5 Jany. 1878 aged 60.
MACLEAN, JOHN. _b._ London 31 March 1836; gave dramatic
readings; first appeared on the stage at T.R. Plymouth 1859 and
played the King in Hamlet there 1860; acted in Jersey, Guernsey
and Birmingham; appeared at Surrey theatre, London as Peter
Purcell in the Idiot of the mountain 7 Sep. 1861; the original
Mr. Gibson in Tom Taylor’s Ticket-of-Leave man, Olympic theatre
27 May 1863; the original Saunders in Wills’s Man o’ Airlie, at
Princess’s 20 July 1867; acted at Gaiety theatre 21 Dec. 1868 to
1871 and 1872–9, at Olympic 1879–80, at Vaudeville 1881; played
at opening of Princess’s theatre 18 Jany. 1884; played Adam in
As you like it at St. James’s 24 Jany. 1885, and Camillo in the
Winter’s Tale at Lyceum 10 Sep. 1887; acted with Mary Anderson
in U.S. of America 1888; last appeared at Strand theatre as the
Old French nobleman in My Brother’s sister 15 Feb. 1890; founder
and first preceptor of the Logic club of Freemasons. _d._ at his
lodgings, Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 15 March 1890.
_bur._ Paddington cemet. 19 March where memorial monument of red
granite 9 ft. 6 in. in height was unveiled 3 May 1892. _Pascoe’s
Dramatic List_ (1880) 255; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _vi_ 575,
592, 593 (1877) _portrait_, _xxii_ 537 (1885) _portrait_, _and
22 March 1890 p._ 44 _portrait_; _The Era 22 March 1890_.
M’LEAN, JOHN DONALD (younger son of Donald M’Lean of Aird, Isle
of Skye). _b._ Aird 1821; emigrated to New South Wales 1837;
grazier and squatter at Westbrook on the Darling downs 1851, was
interested in 40 stations; went to reside near Sydney about Dec.
1859; member of legislative assembly Queensland 1860, colonial
treasurer and member of executive council 21 July 1866 to death.
_d._ Westbrook, Queensland by a fall from his horse 16 Dec.
1866. _Australian men of mark_, _ii_ 87–92 (1889), _portrait_.
M’CLEAN, JOHN ROBINSON (son of Francis M’Clean of Belfast) _b._
1813; ed. at royal academical institution Belfast and Glasgow
univ.; M.I.C.E. 15 June 1844, member of council 1848, vice
pres. 1858–64, pres. 1864–5; lieut.-col. engineer and railway
volunteer staff corps 21 Jany. 1865 to death; chairman Anglo
American telegraph co.; F.R.S. 3 June 1869; contested Belfast 3
April 1857; M.P. East Staffordshire 17 Nov. 1868 to death. _d._
Stonehouse near Ramsgate 13 July 1873.
M’LEAN, ROBERT. _b._ 29 July 1857; ed. at Dr. Adams’ school,
Victoria park, Manchester and at Fettes coll. Edinb. 1870–5;
articled to Hall, Son and Lord, Manchester 1876–81; New Inn
prizeman at examination June 1881; practised at Manchester 1881,
and in London with Albert Gibson 1888 to death; author of A
lesson well learnt and of other dramas and of Diversions of an
articled clerk 1892; edited with A. Gibson and Arthur Weldon,
Law Notes, a monthly magazine for students 1888 to Feb. 1893;
author with A. Gibson of The student’s conveyancing 1885, 3 ed.
1892; Student’s Equity 1887; Student’s practice of the courts
1882, 4 ed. 1889; wrote the libretto of Eric the Dane, a cantata
performed at one of Sir Charles Halle’s concerts. _d._ Richmond
house, High st. Oxford road, Manchester 2 Feb. 1893. _Law
Notes_, _March 1893_, _portrait_.
M’LEAN, THOMAS. _b._ 1788; a publisher of engravings 69
Haymarket, London 1825, retired in favor of his eldest son;
brought out prints of sir E. Landseer’s pictures of The Stag at
bay, Dignity and impudence, Laying down the law, and Be it ever
so humble there’s no place like home; published the Political
sketches of H. B. [_i.e._ J. Doyle] No. 1–757, a series of
coloured lithographic prints 1829–43; published Illustrated
description of the works of J. Gillray 1830; Humorous
engravings, sporting prints 1835. _d._ Selhurst, Surrey 9 March
1875.
MACLEAR, SIR THOMAS (eld. son of James Maclear). _b._ Newton
Stewart, Tyrone 17 March 1794; ed. Winchester; studied at Guy’s
and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1815; house surgeon of
Bedford infirmary 1815; practised at Biggleswade 1823–33, where
he erected an observatory 1828; astronomer royal at Cape of Good
Hope 5 Jany. 1834 to 1870; F.R.A.S. 1828; F.R.S. 8 Dec. 1831,
royal medallist 1869; Lalande medal of the Academy of sciences
1867; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; granted civil list pension
of £100, 18 June 1863; became totally blind 1867; contributed to
Memoirs of R. Astronom. soc. 1835 etc.; author of Observations
of Halley’s comet made at Cape of Good Hope 1837; Astronomical
observations made under the direction T. Maclear 1840;
Contributions to astronomy and geodesy 2 vols. 1851 and 1853;
Verification and extension of La Caille’s arc of meridian 1866;
Catalogue of 4810 stars from observation made by sir T. Maclear
1884. _d._ Grey villa, Mowbray, Capetown 14 July 1879. _bur._ in
the observatory grounds. _Monthly notices of R.A.S. xl_ 200–204
(1880); _Proc. of royal society_, _xxix_ 17–18 (1879); _Nature
14 Aug. 1879 p._ 365.
MACLEAY, SIR GEORGE (son of Alexander Macleay, colonial sec.
N.S.W., _d._ 1848). _b._ 29 July 1809; educ. Westminster 1822
etc.; went to N.S.W. and accompanied capt. Charles Sturt in
his expedition down the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers 1829–30;
member of legislative council of N.S.W. and speaker 1843–6;
member for the Murrumbidgee to the first legislative assembly of
N.S.W. 22 May 1856; C.M.G. 30 June 1869, K.C.M.G. 5 March 1875;
settled at Pendell court, Bletchingley, Surrey. _d._ Chalet des
Rosiers, Mentone 24 June 1891.
MACLEAY, JAMES ROBERT (brother of preceding). _b._ 15 April
1811; ed. Westminster 1822, king’s scholar 1825; sec. to
legation in Chili 1838; registrar of commission at Cape of Good
Hope for suppression of slave trade 24 Jany. 1843; retired upon
superannuation allowance of £166, 1 May 1858. _d._ 49 Queen’s
gate gardens, Kensington 28 Oct. 1892.
MACLEAY, KENNETH (son of Kenneth Macleay of Glasgow, physician).
_b._ Oban 4 July 1802; entered Trustees’ academy, Edinb. 26
Feb. 1822; miniature painter on ivory; painter in oils and
water-colours on paper; an original member of Royal Scottish
academy 1826; his full-length portrait of Helen Faucit was
lithographed; executed for the queen a series of full-length
figures illustrative of costumes of the highland clans, 31 of
these were lithographed, hand-coloured and published under title
of Highlanders of Scotland 2 vols. 1870. _d._ 3 Malta terrace,
Edinburgh 3 Nov. 1878, his dau. M. F. L. Macleay was granted
civil list pension of £100, 16 March 1880. _R. Brydall’s Art in
Scotland_ (1889) 444–5.
MACLEAY, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of Kenneth Macleay of Newmore,
Rossshire). _b._ Caithness 13 June 1820; ed. at new academy and
univ. of Edinb.; emigrated to New South Wales 1839, a sheep
farmer on the Murrumbidgee 1839–54; member of legislative
assembly of N.S.W. for the Lachlan and Lower Darling 1854–75;
the first president of Entomological Soc. of N.S.W. established
at Sydney 17 April 1862, name changed to Linnean Soc., gave
funds for endowment of the society and a house at Elizabeth Bay;
expended interest on £40,000 on research fellowships in univ.
of N.S.W. to which he also gave his entomological museum; in
the Chevert at his own cost made an exploring expedition in New
Guinea, May to Sep. 1875; member of legislative council 1875;
knighted by patent 22 June 1889; author of Description of twenty
new species of Australian coleoptera 1862. d. Sydney 7 Dec.
1891. _The Australian portrait gallery_ (1885) 93–8, _portrait_.
MACLEAY, WILLIAM SHARP (brother of James Robert Macleay
1811–92). _b._ London 30 July 1792; ed. at Westminster 1806–10
and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; attaché at embassy
in Paris 1814; secretary to board for liquidating British claims
in France on the peace of 1815, returned to England 1819; F.L.S.
1821; comr. of arbitration to mixed British and Spanish court
for abolition of slave trade at Havannah 1 Aug. 1825, commissary
judge in same court 20 Feb. 1830, and judge of mixed court under
treaty of 1835, April 9, 1836; retired on a superannuation
allowance 1 Feb. 1837; went to New South Wales 1859; author of
Horæ Entomologicæ or essays on annulose animals 2 vols. 1819–21;
Annulosa Javanica, insects of Java 1825, No. 1 only; The
Annulosa of South Africa 1838; History of the skeleton of the
new sperm whale 1851. _d._ Elizabeth Bay, Sydney 26 Jany. 1865.
_F.O. List_, _Jany. 1865 p._ 116.
MACLEHOSE, JAMES (son of Thomas Maclehose, weaver). _b._ Govan
16 March 1811; apprentice to George Gallie, bookseller, Glasgow
1823–30; with Messrs. Seeleys, London 1833–8; bookseller with R.
Nelson in Glasgow 1838, alone 1841–81 and with his sons 1881 to
death; had the largest retail book business out of London; his
circulating library commenced in 1841 held 20,000 volumes; his
binding business begun in 1863 became well known; had upwards
of 50 writers in his employment and published many books;
bookseller to Glasgow univ. 1864, publisher 1871; author of Old
county houses of the old Glasgow gentry; Memoirs and portraits
of one hundred Glasgow men 2 vols. 1886; great friend of David
Livingstone and Daniel Macmillan the publisher. _d._ 18 Victoria
crescent, Downhill, Glasgow 20 Dec. 1885. _Maclehose’s Memoirs_,
_ii_ 343–6 (1886), _portrait_.
MC LELAN, ARCHIBALD WOODBURY. _b._ 1824; member of provincial
assembly of Nova Scotia 1858–69; member of the senate of the
Dominion 1869; member of Canadian cabinet 1881; president of the
privy council to 1881; minister of marine and fisheries 1881;
minister of finance Dec. 1885 and postmaster general 1887; comr.
for Canada at international fisheries exhibition 1883; lieut.
governor of Nova Scotia 9 July 1888 to death. _d._ Nova Scotia
25 June 1890.
M’LELLAN, ARCHIBALD (son of a coachbuilder). _b._ Glasgow
1795; a partner with his father as a coachbuilder; an heraldic
draughtsman; deacon of the incorporation of hammersmen; deacon
convener of the Trades’ house 1831 and 1834; gave land for a
new western approach to Glasgow cathedral; member of Glasgow
town council 30 years; his paintings, sculptures, gold and
silver plate and library and his house in Sauchiehall st.
purchased by the Glasgow town council for £44,500 in 1854;
author of An essay on the cathedral church of Glasgow 1833;
Catalogue of books and music in library of A. M’Lellan 1839.
_d._ Mugdock castle, Stirlingshire 22 Oct. 1854. _bur._ in the
High church burying-ground at Glasgow. _Maclehose’s Glasgow
men_, _ii_ 205–6 (1886), _portrait_; _Waagen’s Treasures of
art_, _iii_ 286–91 (1854); _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857)
457–62.
M’LENNAN, DONALD (3 son of John M’Lennan, insurance agent).
_b._ Inverness 1833; ed. Aberdeen univ., M.A.; editor of South
Shields gazette to 1864; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1864; assisted
his brother in the preparation of Primitive marriage 1865 and
Studies in ancient history 1876; published The patriarchal
theory, based on the papers of the late J. F. Mac Lennan.
Edited and completed by Donald Mac Lennan 1884. _d._ 2 Vicarage
gardens, Campden hill, Kensington, May 1891.
MC LENNAN, JOHN. Assistant surgeon Bombay army 7 May 1821,
surgeon 15 Nov. 1833; physician general Bombay 1 Jany. 1849,
retired 26 Jany. 1855. _d._ 5 April 1874.
MC LENNAN, JOHN FERGUSON (brother of Donald Mc Lennan 1833–91).
_b._ Inverness 14 Oct. 1827; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A.
1849, and at Trin. coll. Camb., 25th wrangler 1853; advocate
in Edinb. Jany. 1857; secretary to Scottish law amendment
soc. 1858; parliamentary draughtsman for Scotland 1871;
LL.D. Aberdeen 1874; the best authority on ancient marriage
ceremonies; author of Primitive marriage, an enquiry into the
origin of the form of capture in marriage ceremonies 1865;
Memoir of Thomas Drummond 1867; Studies in ancient history 1876;
Studies in ancient history, comprising a reprint of Primitive
marriage 1876, new ed. 1886. _d._ Hawthorndene, Hayes Common,
Kent 16 June 1881.
MACLEOD, ALEXANDER. _b._ Nairn 17 Oct. 1817; entered Glasgow
univ. 1835, studied at the Relief theological hall 1839–44;
presbyterian minister at Strathaven, co. Lanark 20 Feb. 1844;
transferred to John st. ch. Glasgow 11 Oct. 1855; the first
pastor of Trinity ch. Claughton, Birkenhead 17 March 1864 to
death; D.D. Glasgow 9 Feb. 1865; moderator of presbyterian
church of England 1889; author of Christus consolator, or the
social mission of the pulpit 1870; Talking to the children
1872, 8 ed. 1880; Bob, some chapters of his early life 1877;
Days of heaven upon earth 1878; William Logan 1879; The gentle
heart 1881; The children’s portion 1884. _d._ Birkenhead 13
Jany. 1891. _In memoriam. Rev. Alexander Macleod, D.D._ (1891);
_J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1851) 375–80.
M’LEOD, SIR CHARLES. Entered Madras army 1794; lieut. 11 Madras
N.I. 1 Jany. 1800; captain 21 N.I. 21 Sep. 1804, major 25 Oct.
1815; lieut.-col. commandant 12 N.I. 31 May 1827 to 5 June 1829;
col. 34 N.I. 5 June 1829 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 23
July 1823, K.C.B. 30 June 1852. _d._ Seymour st. Portman sq.
London 15 April 1853.
MACLEOD, DONALD. Entered Madras army 1812; lieut.-col. of 6
Madras light cavalry 1840, of 5 Madras light cavalry 18 Feb.
1845 to 1846; col. 3 light cavalry 11 Sep. 1848 to 1860; col. 4
light cavalry 1860–69; L.G. 2 Oct. 1862; commander of Nagpore
subsidiary force 20 Sep. 1848 to 17 June 1851, of Ceded district
28 March 1854 to 28 March 1859. _d._ 29 Greenhill gardens,
Morningside, Edinburgh 7 Feb. 1870.
MC LEOD, SIR DONALD FRIELL (son of Duncan Mc Leod 1780–1856).
_b._ Fort William, Calcutta 6 May 1810; entered Bengal civil
service 1829; administrator of Saugor and Nerbudda 1831–40;
collector and magistrate at Benares 1843–9; comr. at Jellunder
of the Trans-Sutlej States 1849–54; financial comr. of the
Punjab 1854–9 and 1860–5; lieut. governor of the Punjab, Jany.
1865, retired 1870; chairman of the Scinde, Punjab and Delhi
railway; C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866. _d._ St.
George’s hospital, London 28 Nov. 1872 from an accident on the
Metropolitan railway at Gloucester road station same day. _E. J.
Lake’s Memoir of sir D. F. Mc Leod_ (1873), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lxi_ 550, 565 (1872), _portrait_.
MACLEOD, DUNCAN (son of Donald Macleod). _b._ Torbat, co. Ross
20 Feb. 1780; entered Bengal army Feb. 1797; lieut. Bengal
engineers 13 Feb. 1803, col. 18 June 1831 to death; built the
palace at Moorshedabad 1825–36; left India, Feb. 1841; A.I.C.E.
1842; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ London 8 June 1856. _Minutes of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi_ 163–66 (1857).
MACLEOD, SIR GEORGE HUSBAND BAIRD (3 son of Norman Macleod
1783–1862). _b._ 1828; studied medicine at Glasgow, M.D. 1853;
at Paris and Vienna; senior surgeon of civil hospital at
Smyrna, Feb. 1854 to 1856; surgeon at Glasgow 1856 to death;
surgeon in Glasgow royal infirmary, and lecturer on surgery
at Anderson’s college; regius professor of surgery in Glasgow
univ. 1869; crown member of general council of medical education
15 Sep. 1887 to death; surgeon in ordinary to the queen in
Scotland 10 Sep. 1877; LL.D. St. Andrews; knighted at Osborne
12 Aug. 1887; author of Notes on the surgery of the war in the
Crimea 1858; Outlines of surgical diagnosis 1864; Note book for
sir G. Macleod’s clinical class 5 ed. 1890; wrote articles in
S. Cooper’s Surgical dictionary 1861. _d._ Woodside crescent,
Glasgow 31 Aug. 1892. _bur._ Campsie churchyard. _I.L.N. 10 Sep.
1892 p._ 326, _portrait_.
MACLEOD, SIR JOHN (son of Donald Macleod of Bernaray, co.
Inverness). Ensign 78 highlanders 9 March 1793, lieut.-col. 12
May 1808 to Jany. 1826; L.G. 10 Jany. 1837; colonel of 77 regt.
17 Feb. 1840 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 4 July 1832;
knighted at St. James’s palace 4 July 1832. _d._ 18 Montague st.
Portman sq. London 3 April 1851.
M’LEOD, JOHN LYONS. Entered R.N. 26 Nov. 1841; when a midshipman
he captured the slaver Venus after an action of 20 minutes
13 Feb. 1845 for which promoted to be lieut.; British consul
at Mozambique 15 Feb. 1856 to 31 Dec. 1858, when he exposed
the slavery system known as the engagés libres; consul for
districts bordering on rivers Niger and Chadda 26 June 1866,
consulate abolished 13 May 1869, granted compensation allowance
1 July 1869; author of Travels in Eastern Africa 2 vols. 1860;
Madagascar and its people 1865. _d._ 25 Oct. 1893.
MACLEOD, SIR JOHN MACPHERSON (eld. son of Donald Macleod,
colonel in Madras army). _b._ Ardarden, Dumbartonshire 1792;
ed. at Haileybury and at univ. of Edinb.; writer Madras civil
service 1811; assistant sec. to government of Madras 1814–20 and
sec. 1823; comr. for government of Mysore 1832; member of Indian
law commission 1835, retired 1841; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; P.C. 24
March 1871; author of Remarks on some popular objections to the
income tax 1849. _d._ 1 Stanhope st. Hyde park, London 1 March
1881.
MACLEOD, JOSEPH ADDISON (eld. son of Joseph Addison Macleod of
city of London, solicitor). _b._ 1839; ed. Trin. hall, Camb.,
LL.B. 1861; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1863; Q.C. 18 Jany. 1882.
_d._ 27 Leinster gardens, Hyde park, London 14 April 1883.
_bur._ Hulton, Essex 18 April.
MACLEOD, NORMAN (son of Norman Macleod, minister of Morven,
Argyllshire). _b._ Morven, Dec. 1783; minister at Kilbrandon,
Argyllshire 1806–8; minister at Campbeltown, Argyllshire 12
June 1808; minister at Campsie, Stirlingshire, Aug. 1825; D.D.
Glasgow 30 July 1827; minister of Gaelic chapel of ease, St.
Columba’s, Glasgow 31 Oct. 1835 to death; moderator of general
assembly of church of Scotland 1836; chaplain in ord. to the
queen 2 Oct. 1841; one of the deans of chapel royal 1841; author
of Gaelic collection for the use of schools 1828; The Gaelic
messenger 2 vols. 1831; The psalms of David in Irish; author
with D. Dewar of A dictionary of the Gaelic language 1831. _d._
Glasgow 25 Nov. 1862. _J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848)
103–7; _Hew Scott’s Fasti_, _ii_ 32–3, 55 _and iii_ 37.